Contents:
  • The emancipation of the negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack
  • Black power- the debate in 1840 / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease
  • Elevating the race: the social thought of black leaders, 1827-50 / Fredrick Cooper
  • Black history's antebellum origins / Benjamin Quarles
  • "Since they got those separate churches": Afro-Americans and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky
  • Interpreting early black ideology: a reappraisal of historical consensus / George A. Levesque
  • Afro-American identity: reflections on the pre-civil war era / Ernest Allen, Jr.
  • Freedom's yoke: gender conventions among antebellum free blacks / James Oliver Horton
  • The political significance of slave resistance / James Oakes
  • "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": black destiny in nineteenth-century America / Albert J. Raboteau
  • The emergence of racial modernity and the rise of the white north, 1790-1840 / James Brewer Stewart
  • From abolitionist amalgamators to "rulers of the five points": the discourse of interracial sex and reform in antebellum New York City / Leslie M. Harris
  • The market revolution and market values in antebellum black protest thought / Patrick Rael.